In a post-covid world, many companies have engineering departments that have lost valued engineers and talented designers. And your new employees may lack the level of experience you need right now to get your current and future projects back on track. Affinity for Mechanical Design can step in and provide leadership or assistance, working independently or with your staff to ensure a successful future.

Some companies may not want, nor need, the large-scale engineering departments they once had. Instead, they want to utilize their engineering dollars to focus on the product development, machinery, and processes that will improve their future now. Affinity for Mechanical Design can be the lean and aggressive engineering department you want. We can provide whatever level of service you need to get your products and services into forefront of the market.

Experience in numerous industries

Affinity for Mechanical Design has decades of design and engineering consulting experience in numerous industries from packaging, mining, manufacturing and food processing to product design, medical products and machinery.

Creating what others can’t even imagine!

Any great engineer can modify things that already exists. But Affinity for Mechanical Design has the ability to see and create that which doesn’t exist. Innovation is our specialty. Whether it is a new product or a new machine to manufacture that product, we don’t think out-of-the-box, we throw the box out altogether. We think and design in the space between our ears!

Design and engineering consulting project successes

• This enabled us to design and build the world’s fastest remote-control car, decades ago, before any company even manufactured retail 1/4 scale RC cars.
• We developed the 16-axis machine that ground the smallest carbide circuit board drill in history. On a single machine, it not only produced carbide drill bits from start to finish, but it also automatically inspected the finished product and packaged it without a single person touching the bit. This alone reduced scrap for 24% to less that 5%, and Silicon Graphics (Cray Research) bought every drill bit the machine produced. In the end the bit’s manufacturer purchased 12 of the $250,000.00 machines that produced thousands of .018” (or smaller) bits a day.
• We also designed the fastest lunch meat slicer on the planet. This slicer produced 1lb stacks at 1,200 slices a minute! That is 75 stacks of meat per minute. Do the math and figure out the G-forces this machine needed to move a 1lb stack of meat, 5” in just 50 milliseconds! Oh, and the meat stack had to stay intact. And after we finished the one stack machine, we designed a two-stack model that produced 2,400 slices a minute.
• We took a slicer that was purely mechanical, with chains and gearboxes, and completely recreated it into a computer and servo motor controlled “speed demon” for Subway! The company that manufactured the slicer, said that this machine “Revolutionized the meat slicing industry!” Subway had to slow the slicer down until they upgraded their entire processing and packaging line to match the slicer’s capabilities. This sort of performance is not good modifications, it is true innovation!

Because of our innovative abilities to imagine new designs and processes, we can offer your company the “next level” of services you need to develop your new products from conception to market. Leaving your competitors wondering how your company came up with the idea!